The Euphanerops sported bizarre fins below its anus, revealing some of the odd turns evolution took on the path to vertebrate evolution A 370-milion-year-old, primitive fish sported a weird pair of ...

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Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers report. The successful swap ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ...

Teeth grew from the scales of primitive shark-like fish, new evidence has shown. The study found similarities between teeth and small, fang-like scales found on modern cartilaginous fish such as ...

Ancient fish fossils with preserved muscle tissue offer a glimpse at how necks evolved in early vertebrate animals. The fossils also offer a puzzle: The fish had specialized abdominal muscles found ...

People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It has been long assumed that sharks are one of the more primitive forms of fish. But new analysis of a 415 million-year-old fossilised fish has shed doubt on the idea that sharks are the primitive ...

A 370-milion-year-old, primitive fish sported a weird pair of fins just below its anus, new research shows. The strange appendages, detailed today (April 9) in the journal Biology Letters, were found ...